Author: James Alexander WilliamsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
English Colonies in Guiana and on the Amazon
Author: James Alexander WilliamsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Statistics of the Colonies of the British Empire ...
Author: Robert Montgomery MartinPublisher: London : W. Allen
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
The Cambridge Modern History
Author: Sir Adolphus William WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
English and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon, 1550–1646
Author: Joyce LorimerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131714323X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
From as early as the middle of the 16th century Englishmen were interested in the possibility of exploring the fabled resources of the great river of the Amazons. During the first half of the 17th century English and Irish projectors made persistent efforts to maintain trading factories and plantation there. From at least 1612 to 1632 they inhabited settlements along the north channel of the estuary from Cabo do Norte to the Equator, making very considerable profits from tobacco, dyes and hardwoods. The profitability of their holdings was such that, when the Portuguese made the river too risky for foreign interlopers after 1630, former English and Irish planters sought to return there under licence of first the Spanish and then the Portuguese crown. The Irish may actually have been permitted to do so in the mid-1640s. Almost half a century has elapsed since J.A. Williamson and Aubrey Gwynne first published studies of these colonies. New material from English, Portuguese and Spanish archives has now made it possible to re-evaluate their significance. The Irish ventures, although begun in partnership with the English, can now be seen to have developed into a quite distinct initiative. They are probably the earliest example of independent Irish colonial projects in the New World. By the early 1620s the Irish were known for their experience of the river and their expertise in Indian languages, proving far more efficient in their approach to exploiting Amazonia than the English. The tenacity with which both groups, the English and the Irish, pursued their goal of settlement also forces us to re-assess assumptions about the seemingly 'inevitable' priority of North America for such activity in this period. The Amazon undertakings were in many ways more hopeful than contemporaneous enterprises in North America. They failed because their interests were sacrificed, at critical junctures, to the foreign policy priorities of the English crown, not because the Amazon was an unsuitable environment for northern Europeans.
The Nation
Author: A Historical Geography of the British Colonies
Author: Sir Charles Prestwood LucasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Geographical Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
“The” Cambridge Modern History
Author: The Cambridge Modern History
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron ActonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
A Short History of British Expansion
Author: James Alexander WilliamsonPublisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Colonial companies
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description